The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star | 
 enlarge | Author: Nikki Sixx
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  267 reviews
Sales Rank: 4306
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0743486285
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9780743486286
ASIN: 0743486285
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Moetley Cruee's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.When Moetley Cruee was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions. Here, Nikki shares those diary entries -- some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre -- and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom -- and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.
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 AMAZING November 18, 2008
I read this book in one afternoon. Probably one of the best books I have ever read. Buy it you wont be sorry especially if you are a Crue fan!!!! Hardcore, Honest and In your face...Cudos to Nikki and his willingess to share
One of the most powerful books I've ever read...... October 31, 2008
I've been a huge Motley Crue fan for many, many years. The very first time I heard Nikki Sixx was releasing The Heroin Diairies, I thought it was just another tall tale of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll excess. I had heard many stories of Motley Crue's debauchery and excesses over the years, and knew Nikki had overdosed and was actually pronounced dead at one point.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Upon reading this book, I found a much more deeper and complicated series of events led to Nikki's descent into depression and drug fueled madness. His issues of abandonment caused by his father leaving him at a very young age, and being unwanted by his mother and sent to live with his grandparents are all told here with brutal honesty.
Told through his journal entries written in notebooks and scraps of paper, with commentary from bandmates, family members, an ex-lover, and those who were closest to Nikki during the 1987 Girls, Girls, Girls tour, including Sixx himself, this book will leave you laughing, crying, and with your jaw on the floor.
It took and incredible amount of courage for Nikki Sixx to bare his soul and expose his severe depression, self-loathing and drug addiction in this book.
You don't have to be a Motley Crue fan, or even a rock-n-roll fan to feel the impact of this book. It is a bare bones story of a man who had it all-money, success, girls, seemingly everything, only to have his life spiral completely out of control, all the way to rock bottom. He even talks of how the more famous he became, the more he hated himself.
Instead of becoming another Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, or Sid Vicious, Nikki eventually chose the recovery path and turned his life around.
I think this book is a huge inspiration to anyone going through difficult times, be it drug abuse, childhood issues, and/or depression. People can follow Sixx's lead and know that there is hope and a way out. Someone told Nikki that a book like this isn't very rock-n-roll, he bsically told that person where to go. Sixx has always done things his way, and he makes recovery and sobriety VERY rock-n-roll!
 I liked THE DIRT better. October 30, 2008
Very very good but, I liked THE DIRT better. You get a lot of info that you probably already knew. However, this book is very fun and very dark. A somewhat distrubing look into the lifestyle of a rock and roll addict.
Interesting read about addiction October 12, 2008
I didn't know I was going to enjoy reading about someone's drug addiction so much! I am not an addict and its not something I ever thought I would read about in this type of forum but I like Motley Crue and Nikki.
I think what makes this book so interesting is that it seems so honest. Nikki didn't hold back (or at least he didn't appear to) on some nasty details about what he was doing. I realize he wrote these journal entries while he was using but he didn't skimp on publishing some of those details.
The second thing that I enjoyed was the things people that were in Nikki's life at the time had to say about him NOW. And then he of course snaps back a few times as well. It's almost as if having people who were there comment on his journal entries provides more backing to the things Nikki had written, it not as if all this stuff was only in Nikki's mind, it really happened.
Anyway, this inspired me to seek other books about bands from the 80s that I like, such as Slash's autobiography (which I highly recommend as well). If reading The Heroin Dairies helps someone with their own addictions that's awesome, and that may have been Nikki's point of publishing his journal entries.
Great Read October 10, 2008
Even if you aren't a big fan of Nikki Sixx, I think you will enjoy this book. It is very well put together. It is honest, it seems he didn't hold anything back. Between Nikki's diary entries there is recent written commentary looking back at the time period that the diary was written by Nikki, other members of Motley Crue, their managers and Nikki's friends. Even if you aren't a big reader, you won't want to put this book down. It is INTENSE!
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